Interesting... I had not heard of the eight day market cycle of early Rome, apparently derived from the Etruscans. Seems to have been replaced gradually by a 7 day week throughout the first 3 centuries AD, and not as a result of Nicea.
Yes, and in the case of Messianics, we'll often trust that our ancestors actually were capable to keep the Sabbath day from being lost .Ok ,I highlighted what I thought you were referencing but I wasn't sure. I want to encourage everyone to test every spirit and question everything. Look to scripture find the answers. It's ok if we learn our beleifs are wrong. But until you've exhausted every possibility we don't know, unless G-d sends Rauch Hakodesh to smack you up side the head and say this is the answer, then it's pointless to search any farther.
From new moon to new moon and from sabbath to sabbath— this just means that it will be a gradual process (all people coming to serve Christ) that will occur between the spaces of sabbath worship and education in the Word, from week to week and month to month. It is and will continue to be a gradual sanctification of all people (who are not chosen for destruction. )
Just so it's known, If you were to asked me to choose the most logical theory and the one that weighs the lightest on me it would be the one @ZecAustin put forth.
I have a hard time believing the Council at Nicaea changed the calendar;
I like the new testament story where it says "Paul kept going on and on" then the guy falls asleep and falls, haha.Confirmed they didn't. Constantine changed the 'day of rest' from the 8th day of the 8 day week (the market day called 'Nones') to the 1st day of the 7 day week ('Sunday'). Sunday was also the name for the 1st day of the week in the 8 day week.
This wasn't done by the Council of Nicaea, which came a few years later. Though the Council of Laodicea later decreed it for the church and prohibited Saturday Sabath observance. So this makes me question the authenticity of sources pinning this on Nicaea (unless for some reason they spoke on the subject as well). It speaks somewhat to the pop history idea of blaming everything on Constantine via Nicaea.
Before Laodicea, many churches held events on both Saturday and Sunday.
Being very unsettled about this topic, I am looking forward to iron sharpening iron.
@moshe has teachings that might well belong in this discussion.
The hebrew for month is chodesh not moon; thus 30 solar days constitute a chodesh.If the Sabbath is a requirement, just as the festivals, and so is the new moon day. Why is the new moon day not observed?